Question

Tissue culture technique can produce indefinite number of new plants from a small parental tissue. The economic importance of technique is in raising

• A. Variants through picking up somaclonal variations.
• B. Genetically uniform population of an elite species.
• C. Homozygous diploid plants.
• D. Development of new species.

Answer 1

Answer: (A)

Variants through picking up somaclonal variations.

All plants regenerating from the tissue culture are not exactly the replicas of a parental form. There are variations among new plants formed which is known as Somaclonal variations. That way, variety of new traits/alleles can be obtained from small parental tissue.